Belt and drawers-supporter.



UNrrED STATES Patented. May 19, 1903.

CHARLES WINKLER, oF N'Ew YORK, N. Y.'

BRELT AND DRAWERS-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 728,530, dated May 19,1903.

Application filed April 21, 1902.

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known thai-.1, CHARLES WINKLER', a citizen ofthe United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented a new and useful Belt and Drawers-Supporter, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates tov belt and drawerssupporters, more"partic'ularly to the belts worn upon summer or outing trousers, and hasAfor its object the production of a device whereby the belt may besupported in a secure manner and in a position to be at all times easilyremoved or attached and means also provided for supporting the drawerswhen required.

Further objects of the invention will appear in the annexed descriptionandbe specified in the claims.

. Inthe drawings illustrative of the invention, Figure l is a detailview of a portion o-f the waistband of a pair of trousers and of a beltwith the improved holder in position thereon. Fig. 2 is a side view.ofthe same, partially in section. Fig. 3 is a View of the blank from whichthe holder is formed. Fig. .4 is a perspective view of the holder fromthe rear. v

The device may be attached to any garment for holding a belt thereon andalso for supporting the drawers, but, as before stated, is moreparticularly applicable to summer'or outing trousers with which a beltis generally worn at the waistband, and for the purpose of illustrationthe device is shown thus applied, the waistband being represented at`10` and a portion of a belt at llof any approved form. These belts aregenerally formed of leather but the device is applicable to belts of anymaterial. Trousers ofthis style are generally supplied with cloth strapsof the same material as the garment; /bnt such straps are easily brokenand frequently wear out before the remainder of the garment and,moreover, are an unsightly adjunct and require the insertion of the beltthrough each strap endwise to attach it to thegarment. With the improvedattachment the garment can be readily attached and detached by merelyinserting it bodily upward or downward and without the necessity ofmoving it Serial No. 103,968. (No model.)

forations 13, similar to the perforations inv i buttons or by othermeans, as may be desired. Projecting from the disk l2 is a plate 14,parallel to the former, and inturned and projecting upwardly from thelower edge vof this plate is a spring-tongue 15, disposed in the spacebetween the two parts 12 and 14, bowed from the latter at itsintermediate portion and having its upper end bearingagainst the plate14, so that its tension is maintained and its intermediate portion iscaused to exert a spring force upon the disk 12. Extending from theplate 12 on the opposite side from the plate 14 is another extension 16,adapted to be inserted through the lining 10a of the trousers andextended upward"i` -fleform of a hook, as shown, to receive thesupporting-loops of the drawers. The belt will be supported between thespring-tongue 15 and the waistbandlO with sufficient force to adequatelysupport it against any strains to which such belts are usually subjectedwhen inuse, but which will yield to any force sufficient tointentionally remove it. When the beltis in position, as in Fig. 1, theonly portion of the device in view is the plate 14, and this may beornamented in any manner desired or formed in any desired shape and maytherefore become an ornamental part of the dress of the wearer insteadof an unsightly adjunct, as with the cloth straps ordinarily employed.

The device will'preferabl y be formed in one piece struck up from ablank of the form shown in Fig. 3 and the parts bent into the describedrelative positions.

Any quantity of material may be used for the device, and minor changesmay be made therein without sacrificing the advantages sought to becovered herein and'without affecting the scope or spirit of theinvention.

Having'thus fully described myinvention, what I claim as new, anddesiret'o secure by Letters Patent, is j 1. A supporting device of the classdescribed comprising a holding-disk 12 adapted to be roo attached to agarment, an npturned hook 16 on the inner side and extending from thelower edge of said disk, a downturned plate 14 on the front side andextending from the upper edge ot' said holding plate, and aspring-tongue 15 bent inwardly and upwardly from the lower edge of saidplate 14, disposed between the latter and the holding-plate, and havingits intermediate portion bowed from and its upper end adjacent to theinner side of said plate 14, substantially as described.

2. Asupportingdeviee ofthe class described comprising a holding-diskhaving an upturned hook on its inner side, a downturned plate in frontof and spaced from said holding-disk, and an upwardly-extendingspringtongue on the inner side and inturned from the lower edge of thefront plate, said tongue having its intermediate portion out of contactwith and its upper end bearing against the front plate, substantially asdescribed.

3. A garment-supporter comprising spaced, approximately parallel membersconnected at one edge, one of said members being adapted for attachmentto a garment, and the other member carrying at its inner surface ayielding tongue centrally bowed from the plane of the member.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflxedmy signature in 3o the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES WINKLER.

lVitnesses:

WILLIAM C. KOCH, WILLIAM BARUeHsoN.

